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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. ix. MAR. 23,

possibly be more Irish than Scotch in its deep throaty tone.

Sheughs are the equivalent of ditches, and all workpeople so describe them ; while the better-class children are warned against such words, and often know two tongues, the one for the drawing-room and the less elegant and homely one in use amongst servants. Downstairs we were quiet at the warning, "Good children make no noise"; whereas the nursery version of the same old appeal was always, " Och, weans dear ! would ye but whisht, and keep a calm sough for pity's dear sake." Y. T.

FAMOUS CORNISH REGIMENT OF 1643 (11 S* viii. 90). SIB J. L. BONYTHON will be glad to know that by the courtesy of Mr. J. C. W'hitebrook, the owner of this interesting MS., its contents will be published, after careful revision, in the next volume of the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, of which Institution distance from Cornwall does not prevent his being a generous friend. THURSTAN PETER.

DAVID BURGES (US. ix. 150). Accord- ing to the extract from The Gentleman's Magazine given below, David Burges, Esq., died at Paris on 22 July, 1838. Your corre- spondent could obtain further particulars from the Bureau de 1'Etat Civil in that city, either direct or, on payment of a fee of 5*. in addition to the charges of the Registrar, through the British Consulate-General.

" Abroad. July 22. At Paris, David Burges, esq. of Leamington, late Capt. first Battalion Rifle Brigade." 1838, pt. ii. p. 343, September Obituary.

H. A. F.

"THE TALLEST ONE-PIECE FLAGSTAFF IN

THE BRITISH EMPIRE " (11 S. ix. 7, 94). The flagstaff presented to the fourth Duke of Northumberland by Mr. Edward Stamp in 1861 was set up, not at Alnwick Castle, but at Alnwick Abbey, where it stood for thirty- three years. It having been reported that it was shaking the masonry of the ancient gate-house tower against which it had been planted, it was ordered to be taken down in 1894.

The above-named Mr. Edward Stamp was born in 1809 or 1810 at Whitehouse in the parish of Alnwack. Running away from home to sea at the age of 14, he rose to be master and mariner. It is stated that he first visited British Columbia in 1856; subse- quently he founded lumber mills at Barclay Sound ; embarked on the banks of the Eraser River in a fish-curing business; and at the time of his death was engaged in forming a

company at New Westminster for the pack- ing of salmon. He was more, than once a member of a Colonial Legislature, and died in the month of January, 1872, while on a visit to London. J. C. HODGSON. Alnwick.

BLACKFRIARS ROAD (US. ix. 185). On Laurie and Whittle's Plan of London, West- minster, and Southwark, dated 12 May, 1794, the thoroughfare now known as Black - friars Road is called " George's Road " as far as Webber Street, and from there to the Obelisk " Temple PI." The name " Albion Place," still given separately in the ' Post Office Directory,' is also printed on this plan. The square now called Nelson Square was then known as St. George's' Place.

ROLAND AUSTIN.

AN EARLY MAP OF IRELAND (11 S, ix. 208). Will the following afford a clue ?

"Anne, sole sister and heir of Mr. Richard Merriweather, who died unmarried 1720, married Mr. John Lowndes, of Overton, in Cheshire, who afterwards resided here [Shepherdswell, Dover], and dying in 1734 left an only da. and heir Sarah, who married Awnsham Churchill, Esq., of Henbury, owner likewise of Upton Manor, and nephew of Awnsham Churchill, the purchaser of that manor, who was an eminent stationer, and M.P. for Dor- chester, the son of Wm. Churchill, Esq., of that place." Hasted's ' Hist, of Kent, vol. ix. p. 379.

R. J. FYNMORE.

"MEG'S DIVERSIONS" (11 S. ix. 208). The Meg from whom this phrase originated was " Long Meg of Westminster," who in ' A Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fic- tion,' &c., by William A. Wheeler, M.A. (1870), is described as follows :

" A ' lusty bouncing romp' and procuress of the sixteenth century, whose * Life and Pranks ' were ' imprinted at London ' in 1582, and subsequently. She is often alluded to by the older English writers."

There are in the British Museum Cata- logue nine editions, of various dates, of this good lady's * Life and Pranks.'

Inner Temple. HABRY R POLAND.

Meg was Margaret Crow in Craven's^, ay 'Meg's Diversion,' produced at the ew Royalty in 1866. It had a long and successful run, and figured on the bill with Burnand's inimitable burlesque of ' Black- yed Susan,' which drew the whole town to the little house in Dean Street, Soho. Miss M. Oliver impersonated Meg, and, in the anguage of her father, Jasper Pidgeon, the village carpenter, was her " diversion."

WlLLOTJOHBY

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